Xelgion

No. Even if it did "add" content like Alorael says, I would feel that companies who would do such a thing, and who would then pop up more and more "Buy our game!" messages to be completely counter-productive.

Thing is, you're assuming two things.

 

A) The company put "E" into the demo which they wouldn't of otherwise

They don't erode content "C"

 

If they erode content "C" you just feel more rushed when playing a game. When I am playing the demo for Geneforge, do I want the features of creations, spells, and dialogue to appear as I go along the first few zones? By the time I was almost done with the demo, I would have about a minute of broken gameplay with then about 5 minutes of "Buy now!" messages popping up. And there are ways you can tantalize people without having the new content be seen, then erode away. For example, at the end of the G4 demo, you stop at the shaper town, and then it stops, you get all these lovely goodies and no one to use them on. For me, it was a great pull factor for me to buy the game. Heck, if Jeff really wanted to dangle sweet goodies in front of the player's mouth then snatch them away, he would of made it stop right before the new town, which as any player knows, always has new goodies of all sorts.

 

But then take a look at erosion, the new content would be barely accessible, then dissipate, and then the base demo would start to dissipate as well, leaving gamers agitated and annoyed, especially with the frequent pop-ups. I would rather have a fully functional demo of Geneforge rather than have a demo of Geneforge which included a few more zones, but by the time you got to those zones, your characters creations, armor, and weapons all disappeared.

Tis true, and no matter how hard we try to forget, we are reminded: There is no place for your sanity here.

And suddenly, I remember why I don't come here as much.

I find that last minute panic is what gives the best work results with me. So most of my homework is done within an hour before its due.

The commercials this year seemed to be based around males in underwear. And lots of Budwiser, although not that many Honda commercials.

 

Although the game was probably one of the best I have seen, and the Who's half-time performance was enjoyable, considering they are around 50 years old and still sound the same.

I see a file called gf2scendata.dat, but when I try to open it with wordpad it displays a bunch of goobldey gook with the occasional readable set of words. Advice on a program that would read the file?

 

Edit: Sorry, didn't realize my brother logged in with his account until I had posted.

@ Nioca and some other dude: It wouldn't of mattered. Looking back at the roles, I had no idea who anyone was (except Strine, who was doing his own thing), and a person who I thought was the pure spirit was the DL Commander. I got info from 2 sources that I thought were reliable. But no point in trying to make excuses, I think I just suck at NI.

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YES

Or, um, how do we know if we are playing? Have you sent out roles?

Who is playing?

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What are y'all doing for New Years Eve this year?

I am not suited for the Oliver. Half the people knew my role by the first day, and I wasn't doing much trading.

Lets hope no one posts the communist manifesto.

Aw hell yeah.

 

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I like the new Vakhos.

Mangoes are positively nutritious.

....Which you just made?

Its a nice feature.

 

EDIT: Iffy, tsk tsk, its a pail of phail.

Buttered Vlish would make a nice meal.

Yes. I would give it a go, but no one really play's non-online custom maps anymore.

Wrong. There is a difference between eating what has been dead and cannot be returned to life, and taking a life to eat.

Its not necessarily winning. I do just fine on maps like Lord of the Rings custom maps (The ones with tactics, not just rpging) and Kerrigan's Demise (same concept), its just that singleplayer and campaigns add more than one objective (kill) which multiplayer does not provide when not using custom maps. It also provides a chance for people to screw around and see plausible tactics, good builds, and to just see how the game functions. Online has a competitiveness for obvious reasons that prevent that.

People who like Story, the ability to mess around and test out different things, and to not go against an insane person who memorized the best tactics and combo's in the first week of release. (And Alorael does, apparently.)

Well Warcraft is essentially done for. I could not see Blizzard to even begin thinking of making Warcraft 4, considering they already have World of Warcraft. And I am very suspicious of StarCraft 2. I have a feeling that its gonna pull a Nova or be primarily multiplayer based, while singleplayer is underdeveloped or undersized.